Further delay and new proposals on table as Rotherham United await promotion ruling

The EFL today ended a comprehensive consultition process in which member clubs were invited to submit suggestions.

They will now be voted on at a meeting next Tuesday rather than Monday, as originally planned, leaving the Millers with a longer wait before their fate is decided.

Promotion and relegation will also be retained as part of proposals that will require approval by at least 51 per cent of clubs in the EFL's three divisions.

The EFL recently suggested that the Championship, League One and League Two tables should be decided on an unweighted points per game average if the season cannot be finished.

That method would see the Millers, who occupied the second automatic promotion position in League One before the season was suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, return to the Championship.

However submissions from rival clubs include one from relegation threatened Tranmere Rovers involving a points-per-game method with a margin of error over the last three seasons built in to decide promotions and play-off places.

Such a scenario would see Rotherham nudged into the play-offs.

League One rivals Ipswich Town, who have drifted out of the promotion frame of late, are understood to want final positions decided on those the teams occupied after 22 games when all had played each other once.

Speaking in tomorrow's Advertiser, Millers chairman Tony Stewart says he hopes common sense will prevail and that manager Paul Warne, his staff and players deserve promotion having worked themselves into second place with so much of the season completed.

League Two clubs have already said they want the season abandoned but the Championship is aiming to resume on June 20.